Strong Will

Director

Nathalie Rbeiz

Country

Year

2015

Duration

17 min

Language

Subtitles

English

Strong Will looks at the story of Soha Beshara, a Lebanese woman who in 1988 tried to assassinate General Antoine Lahad of the South Lebanon Army. She was unsuccessful and was jailed for ten years in the notorious Khiam prison in southern Lebanon. Her mother, Najat Eid, who was married to former communist activist Fawaz Beshara, was forced to carry her daughter’s act for the rest of her life, and to work hard to keep her daughter alive and to secure her release from prison.